extend that liberality to the performance which it has fo eminently fhewn to the family of a man, who, in all his labors, whether from the pulpit or the press, conscientiously endeavoured to improve his fellow-creatures, rather than to display his own abilities. The Editor has only to add, that the gratitude of the Author's Family is as fincere as the benevolence of the Public has been great. Edmonton, Feb. 16, 1797. H. B. O. SERMON I. ROMANS ii. Ver. 28, 29. FOR HE IS NOT A JEW, WHO IS ONE OUTWARDLY; NEITHER IS THAT CIRCUMCI SION, WHICH IS OUTWARD IN THE FLESH: BUT HE IS A JEW, WHO IS ONE INWARDLY; IS THAT OF THE AND CIRCUMCISION HEART, IN THE SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE LETTER, WHOSE PRAISE IS NOT OF MEN, BUT OF GOD. ST. Paul, in the beginning of this Epistle, defcribes the wretched and deplorable ftate, into which Mankind were univerfally fallen ;-and thence infers the great |